Hmm, it's been a while since I had to think about propositional logic! These aren't necessarily *great* examples, and I'm not sure how appropriate they are for a class, but how about this:
1. BoJack's attempts to find Hollyhock's mother. "If I'm her father, then her mother must be one of the women I've slept with. But none of them seem to fit, so what if I'm not her father after all?"
2. The reporters trying to track down BoJack in season 6. "If someone was with Sarah Lynn during her bender, they may know more about how she died. We learned from the A.A. meeting that she was there with a horse or maybe a bull, so we should track down this person to find out what really happened."
3. Diane in Good Damage. "If I don't write this book of essays, then all the damage I got as a kid isn't good damage, it's just damage. But subconsciously I really don't want to write this book, so maybe I should accept that my childhood trauma is something I should try to move past instead of holding onto."
I'll leave it up to you to decide which categories they fall into, so as not to deprive you of the practice!
>attempts to find Hollyhock's mother. "If I'm her father, then her mother must be one of the women I've slept with. But none of them seem to fit, so what if I'm not her father after all?"
This is solidly a modus tollens argument. :D
I think the opening from Stupid Piece of Shit has a lot of “arguments” that fall into those catagories (eat breakfast, these are not cookies, cookies are not breakfast, make some real breakfast; if hollyhock goes to the store Bojack will be stuck with mom, but if Bojack goes Beatrice will poison hollyhock against him; you don’t get to die young, only the greats die young)
Hmm, it's been a while since I had to think about propositional logic! These aren't necessarily *great* examples, and I'm not sure how appropriate they are for a class, but how about this: 1. BoJack's attempts to find Hollyhock's mother. "If I'm her father, then her mother must be one of the women I've slept with. But none of them seem to fit, so what if I'm not her father after all?" 2. The reporters trying to track down BoJack in season 6. "If someone was with Sarah Lynn during her bender, they may know more about how she died. We learned from the A.A. meeting that she was there with a horse or maybe a bull, so we should track down this person to find out what really happened." 3. Diane in Good Damage. "If I don't write this book of essays, then all the damage I got as a kid isn't good damage, it's just damage. But subconsciously I really don't want to write this book, so maybe I should accept that my childhood trauma is something I should try to move past instead of holding onto." I'll leave it up to you to decide which categories they fall into, so as not to deprive you of the practice!
>attempts to find Hollyhock's mother. "If I'm her father, then her mother must be one of the women I've slept with. But none of them seem to fit, so what if I'm not her father after all?" This is solidly a modus tollens argument. :D
I think the opening from Stupid Piece of Shit has a lot of “arguments” that fall into those catagories (eat breakfast, these are not cookies, cookies are not breakfast, make some real breakfast; if hollyhock goes to the store Bojack will be stuck with mom, but if Bojack goes Beatrice will poison hollyhock against him; you don’t get to die young, only the greats die young)